4 Maccabees 2:11

⁹And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.

¹⁰For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

— 4 Maccabees 2:11 —

¹²And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.

¹³And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.